Because lead paint has a sweet taste and small children will lick it or pick off chips and eat it - lead poisoning is nasty stuff. Unless you disturb the asbestos it won't generate dust and be an inhalation danger.

I would rather know if it had asbestos, radon gas or lead based paint - or a history of plumbing/heating problems ...

And the problem with those is most of the people are morons, as are the investigators. Look, a house is an 'organic creature' - it creaks, it groans, it has air hammer or water clank in the pipes, it gets EMF generated by wiring and appliances, the foundations settle with the raise and drop of the thermometer and…

A too small kitchen or lack of wheelchair access is a deal breaker for me =) Th house we currently have has a microscopic kitchen, I have to do my food prep on the dinner table. After putting a microwave, a blender and a knife block on my single scrap of counterspace, there is not enough room for a cuttingboard.…

The bitch is that pretty much any random house built previous to WW1 has had someone die in it - people didn't go to the hospital for everything, and tended to die at home from old age and chronic illness [and the occasional accident]. Women had their children at home, physicians made house calls and more than one…

No, the problem is employers that aren't even paying minimum wage. Tips should not be used as the main part of your income, they should be a nice surprise for great service. You income should come from your employer.

And who has facebook in their real name? If you are going to be working, you should not have an account in any social media in your own name. I am safe, I am retired so I don't care if I can be tracked down, and any crap I post about shitty service I can't get fired about.

It started because cars were an affectation for the rich, and frequently traveled with not just a chauffeur but a mechanic. It started out as a convenience for people in France, and the original guide had restaurants, hotels, garages, places for getting fuel and so forth. Then they branched out to covering other…

It's a date!!! I hate getting dressed up and going out to some expensive plate - Pierces Pit BBQ in Virginia is good enough for me, no matter how rich I am I will always have a soft spot for good BBQ~~

Oh I have got to go there next time we drive across country to visit familiy!

Or given my ill health, a big case of the point and giggle *sigh*

Eh, I know someone who used to work for Bobby Flay and there is a reason he refers to him as Booby Phlegm. I bet Fieri is just as much of an asshole to work for. I have seen his show, and I won't bother watching another one, or going to his restaurant.

But they are raised eating feed, not garbage! What an animal eats will flavor the meat - which is why something like a shore bird may taste fishy. [Hell, take a steak from a cow fed on fish meal and it tastes fishy in the fat layer. Yuck. That is mainly why I prefer not to eat european raised beef and go for…

I am an omnivore that confuses my local Chinese place - 9/10 of the time I get tofu General Tso with extra broccoli and then I'll get something like Mongolian Beef or Teriyaki Beef Skewers and chicken wings and have a veritable meat-fest. I happen to like tofu, and have no issue having meals with no meat. I didn't…

Well, we have raised poultry for ourselves for the past 20 years [and if we had more than 2 acres we would probably do the whole buy a calf every spring and raise it to slaughter in the winter thing] and I will say that I like doing it because 1) poultry are fun to watch and 2) I know what they have eaten and how they…

That would last my husband and I a week doing soup 2 meals a day ... @_@

Eh, I have it on my tablet - I pop in and do stuff whenever I manage to think about it. I don't buy gems, so I am the wrong demographic, I have the patience to wait for the gems to build up, eventually I will be able to buy the 6th imp. I don't feel the need to hurry the game up any =)

I don't care what color - I find any murder unsettling.

My parents fed my brother and I the exact same things they ate - I was probably the only 5 year old in Perry NY in 1966 who would happily peel cooked shrimp and eat artichokes [or knew what the hell they were] To his day, about the only veggies I dislike are okra, eggplant, zucchini, bell peppers and fennel [anything…

Roll on the floor, though I suppose that in a chair I am always rolling on the floor, mainly because we haven't invented antigravity so I can't roll on the ceiling =) Though I would love to laugh as a form of exercise, it would probably be a lot more fun than my normal physio!